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Weathered Wood Box

Wherever I go I love to take photos of textures, be that rust, lichen, aged stone and brick, peeling paint that sort of thing. A few years ago I found this wonderful weathered fence and just had to take a photo.

Weathered wooden fence

Now that I’ve been experimenting with acrylic paint, I discovered a great way to replicate the weathered wood look. I dug out a little card box, that I bought to alter and have been ‘saving’ and decided its time had come and that it would become a weathered wooden box.

Weathered wooden fence

Previously when I’ve been creating this effect, I haven’t used any gesso as the board I was working on was already white. This time the box was brown, so I applied a coat of gesso using a scrap of car sponge. Anyone joining me on this workshop will discover that car sponge will become a bit of a trade mark as my go to tool of choice. I’ll let Blue Peter keep their sticky backed plastic, its car sponge for me hehe. The paint behaved differently over the gesso so it took more blending that I had expected, but with more layering and blending, I am very pleased with the result.

Do you like it? Would you like to know how to create this paint effect? Join me on friday for a video tutorial on how to create ‘Weathered Wood Paint effect’. You won’t believe how easy it is, and the result is flat (unless you want to add additional mediums to the paint to bulk up the texture). So this effect would be perfect for art journals, cards, ATCs as well as book covers.

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What a super photo Billie, you could use that photo of the weathered wood to create some lovely background papers…overstamped with a script stamp they would look great. Just love the texture and the lichens on it too are fab.
Love the effect you have recreated and shall be looking forward to that video.
I found that due to the ‘tooth’ of gesso acrylic paint doesn’t flow so well and achieving a bushmark free surface almost impossible to get. Yet I had to use gesso on some of the mdf word shapes as they were laser cut and the resins ran so paint would not give a good coverage so the surface had to have a coat of gesso. Still it has been a learning curve! Sponging instead of brushing the paint looked much better – I used a sponge intended for a baby which had a finer texture than a car sponge but only used this because I couldn’t get to anywhere that sold car sponges!! Love the various effects that can be achieved with different materials lol.
Hugs
Lynn xx

DH has gotten used to me now, cooing over textures. He was looking at trains, I was enjoying the textures on the fence and later the ageing leather suitcases on the platform🙂 To each their own as they say.🙂

Turns out, I don’t use a brush very often in my mixed media painting🙂 I’m such a rebel in my old age hehe.

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